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Author(s)
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Title
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4831
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Pieter
Serneels
Jose
G.
Montalvo
Gunilla
Pettersson
Tomas
Lievens
Jean
Damascene
Butera
Aklilu
Kidanu
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Who Wants to Work in a Rural Health Post? The Role of Intrinsic Motivation, Rural Background and Faith-Based Institutions in Rwanda and Ethiopia
Most developing countries face shortages of health workers in rural areas. This has profound consequences for health service delivery, and ultimately for health outcomes. To design policies that ...
(published in: Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2010, 88, 342-349)
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J22, I11
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4830
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David
W.
Johnston
Carol
Propper
Stephen
Pudney
Michael A.
Shields
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Is There an Income Gradient in Child Health? It Depends Whom You Ask
A large literature uses parental evaluations of child health status to provide evidence on the socioeconomic determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A), 2014, 177, 807-827.)
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I12, J13
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4829
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Luca
Flabbi
Andrea
Moro
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The Effect of Job Flexibility on Female Labor Market Outcomes: Estimates from a Search and Bargaining Model
This paper develops and estimates a search model of the labor market where jobs are characterized by wages and work-hours flexibility. Flexibility is valued by workers, and is costly to provide for ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 168 (1), 81–95)
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J30, C5
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4828
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Daniel
Baumgarten
Ingo
Geishecker
Holger
Görg
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Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 61 (1), 132-152)
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F1, F2, J3
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4827
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Adrian
Beck
Rudolf
Kerschbamer
Jianying
Qiu
Matthias
Sutter
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Guilt from Promise-Breaking and Trust in Markets for Expert Services: Theory and Experiment
We examine the influence of guilt and trust on the performance of credence goods markets. An expert can make a promise to a consumer first, whereupon the consumer can express her trust by paying an ...
(significantly revised version published as 'Shaping Beliefs in Experimental Markets for Expert Services: Guilt Aversion and the Impact of Promises and Money-Burning Options' in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2013, 81, 145-164)
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C72, C91, D82
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4826
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Rolf
Aaberge
Manudeep
Bhuller
Audun
Langřrgen
Magne
Mogstad
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The Distributional Impact of Public Services When Needs Differ
Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services in distributional analysis, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (9-10), 549-562)
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D31, H72, I30
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4825
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Andreas
Peichl
Nico
Pestel
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Multidimensional Measurement of Richness: Theory and an Application to Germany
Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper provides similar measures for the top of the distribution using a dual cutoff method ...
(substantially revised version available as: IZA DP 5926)
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D31, D63, I0, I31
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4824
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Miles
Corak
Darren
Lauzon
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Differences in the Distribution of High School Achievement: The Role of Class Size and Time-in-Term
This paper adopts the technique of DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) to decompose differences in the distribution of PISA test scores in Canada, and assesses the relative contribution of differences ...
(abridged version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28 (2), 189-198)
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I22
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4822
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Iris
BenDavid-Hadar
Adrian
Ziderman
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A New Model for Equitable and Efficient Resource Allocation to Schools: The Israeli Case
This paper sets out a new budget allocation formula for schools, designed to achieve a more equitable distribution of educational achievement. In addition to needs-based elements, the suggested ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2011, 19 (3), 341-362)
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I22
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4821
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Filipe
Almeida-Santos
Yekaterina
Chzhen
Karen
A.
Mumford
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Employee Training and Wage Dispersion: White and Blue Collar Workers in Britain
We use household panel data to explore the wage returns associated with training incidence and intensity (duration) for British employees. We find these returns differ depending on the nature of the ...
(published in: Research In Labor Economics, 2010, 30, 35-60)
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J24, J31, J41
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